This paper reviews a cyclic scheduling model of repetitive manufacturing environments consisting of exible machines and multi-stage jobs. We explicitly model two system performance measures, throughput and ow time, while incorporating variability arising from uncertainty in operation processing times. We present an iterative approximation scheme to estimate the two moment behavior of our perfor...

We show that long-run average cost function for the (R, T) policy with normally distributed demand has a structure similar to that of the corresponding (Q, r) model so that many of the useful properties of the latter model are applicable. In particular, (i) the optimal cost is relatively insensitive to the choice of the reorder interval, T, provided a near-optimal R corresponding to the chosen ...

a celebrated result of i. schur asserts that the derived subgroup of a group is finite provided the group modulo its center is finite, a result that has been the source of many investigations within the theory of groups. in this paper we exhibit a similar result to schur's theorem for vector spaces, acted upon by certain groups. the proof of this analogous result depends on the characteristic o...

Suppose V and U are two independent mean zero random variables, where V has an asymmetric distribution with two mass points and U has a symmetric distribution. We show that the distributions of V and U are nonparametrically identified just from observing the sum V +U , and provide a rate root n estimator. We illustrate the results with an empirical example looking at possible convergence over t...

In the Randall-Sundrum model, the radion-Higgs mixing is weakly suppressed by the effective electroweak scale. A novel feature of the existence of gravity-scalar mixing would be a sizable three-point vertex, h (n) μν -h-φ. We study this vertex in the process e+e− → h μν → hφ, which is allowed only with a non-zero radion-Higgs mixing. It is shown that the angular distribution is a unique charact...